Matthew 3:6

The people are baptized by John in the Jordan, confessing their sins. Outward baptism accompanies inward repentance.

Cross-references · 33

• Acts 19:18Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.
• Matt 3:13–16At that time Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.
• John 1:25–28asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
• Heb 9:10They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.
• Matt 3:11I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
• Acts 2:38–41Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
• Ezek 36:25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
• 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• Acts 10:36–38He has sent this message to the people of Israel, proclaiming the gospel of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.
• Lev 16:21Then he is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man appointed for the task.
• Acts 1:5For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
• Luke 15:18–21I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
• Josh 7:19So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make a confession to Him. I urge you to tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”
• Acts 11:16Then I remembered the word of the Lord, as He used to say, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
• Prov 28:13He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
• Num 5:7and must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution, add a fifth to its value, and give all this to the one he has wronged.
• Lev 26:40But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
• Luke 3:16John answered all of them: “I baptize you with water, but One more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
• Heb 6:2instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
• Dan 9:4And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,
• Acts 19:4–5Paul explained: “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
• Acts 22:16And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’
• Mark 1:5People went out to him from all of Jerusalem and the countryside of Judea. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
• 1 Cor 10:2They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
• John 1:31–33I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”
• Ps 32:5Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah
• Mark 1:8–9I baptize you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
• Job 33:27–28Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
• John 3:23–25Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.
• Col 2:12And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
• 1 Pet 3:21And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
• Titus 3:5–6He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
• Jas 5:16Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

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